Portable gabbier



N. ORLOFF. PORTABLE CARRIER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 11. I918.

1,307,597. PatentedJune 24, 1919.

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N. ORLOFF.

POBTABLECARBIER. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 11. 1918.

1,307,597. Patented June 24, 1919.

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NICK ORLOFF, OF SPARROWS POINT, MARYLAND.

PORTABLE CARRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 24, 1919.

Application filed June 11, 1918. Serial No. 239,421.

' To all whom it may concern;-

Be it known that I, Nrox ORLOFF, a citizen of Russia, residing at Sparrows Point, in the county of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Portable Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in portable carriers of that construction which renders the carrying of the injured or sick person in an eificient manner.

The object of the invention is the provision of a portable carrier of such construction as to render it capable of being carried by a single person such as a soldier, Red- Cross nurse or the like and capable of being readily positioned about a patient and the carrier and patient strapped to the back of another person. 7

A further object of this invention is to provide a portable carrier capable of being used in place of stretchers or the like and is of such a construction as to be permitted to be carried as a knapsack upon the back of the soldier, sailor or the like and may be readily converted into a supporting stretcher for holding a wounded or injured'person to the back of a soldier, sailor or the like.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in the novel combination, construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, and set forth in the claims hereto appended.

- In the drawings forming a part of this application and in which like reference characters refer to corresponding parts through out the several views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation illustrating the application and use of my improved portable carrier.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the seat portion of the carrier.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the carrier in assembled position and ready for use.

Fig. 4} is a fragmentary front elevation of carrier. 7

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary longitudinal sectional view of the adjusting device.

Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the seat portion of the carrier.

Fig. 7 is a modified form illustrating the seat portion converted into a pack or knapsack and adapted to be fastened to the "back of the user and Fig. 8 is a perspective view of another slightly modilied formillustrating the knap sack or bag and its attachment forholding the same to the side of the person.

Referring to the drawings the numeral 5 indicates a substantial triangular-shaped piece of cloth or other fabric forming the body of my carrier. The side edges of the body are folded back upon themselves and stitched'as at 6 to reinforce the same and strengthen the side edges. The larger end of said body is also folded and stitched as at tion of the body 5. These straps are then extended over the right and left shoulders of a person designated B in the drawings and are crossed as at C as illustrated in Fig. 1. The free ends of the straps 9 are then adjustably secured to the straps 11 secured to each end of the larger end of the body as at 12 as illustrated in Fig. 6. Each of the straps 11 is provided with buckles 13 to adjustably receive the terminals of the shoulder straps 9. Each of the shoulder straps 9 are provided adjacent their terminals with a suitable adjusting device 14 of any desired formso that the straps 9 may be readily taken up or let out to fit persons of various sizes. v

The body 5 is provided at its larger end on the outer side thereof with the spaced guides 15 through Which guides extends the belt 16 which belt-has one end secured to the seat portion as at 17 and its free end adjustably secured to a buckle 18 secured to the body as at 19 at a point remote from the securing of the belt thereto. It will'be readily apparent that by virtue of this belt 16 and buckle 18 the enlarged portion of the bodymay be adjusted about the waist-line of the 5 with his legs prbjfl ting through the openings formed ,the bending up of the apex and the connecting of the apex with the larger ,end of the body. Thestraps are then arrangedoyer the shoulders of the carrier B and fastened to the straps 11 through the I mediuinofthe buckles 13 and thepatient or injured person is then nicely positioned; uponthe back of the carrier Band may be readily transported to. a base hospital or the ke In the modification shown in Fig. 7 the body "5 having the belt 16, buckle 18 carrying strap 19 shoulder-straps 9 andfastening straps :11 are used. Thismodification represen-ts the forming of the carrier into a bag or knapsack and to accomplish the same the strap 16 is adjustedthrough the buckle 18 to provide the plaits 20, this drawing the side edges of the carrier together and the side edges are closed by lacing one edge to the other edge as illustrated at 21 and the apex of the seat portion .and plaited portion of the larger end of'the seat portion forms the opening to the interior of the bag or the like. By virtue ofthe straps'9 and 11 this bag may be readily suspended from the shoulders and hung against the back of a person.

In the modification illustrated in Fig. 8,

.I describe and illustrate a slightly new form ofbag. This baghas all of the elements of the form shown in Fig. 7 .and is similarly assembled but instead of using both pairs of straps 9 and llyonly one strap of each pairisnecessary 'to support the bag to a person. To accomplish this change, I secure to the inactive strap 9 near its point of connection to the apex of the body a locking loop 21 "and this 10019 when assembling the bag is drawn beyond the guide loop 9 and a pin 22 is placed transversely through the locking loop 21*" to hold the inactive strap against rearward s-liding-mdvement, it being understood, of course, that the free end of ment and the bag may be readily removed from the back of the user and converted into the portable carrier or stretcher by simply removing the lacers 21, unfastening the belt 16 from the buckle 1.8 and arranging the straps 9 in the manner previously described.

Having thus described by invention, what I claim as new is 1. A combined portable carrier and bag comprising a flexible body, supportingstraps connected to each end of said body, adjusting means at one end of said body, and means for connecting the side edges of said body together whereby the carrier is converted into a bag.

2. A combined portable carrier and bag comprising a flexible body, supportingstraps secured to each end of said body, guide loops for certain of said straps and secured to the body, means for connecting the free ends of said straps together to permit the carrier to be attached to a person, adjusting means attached to one end of said body, and means for connecting the sides of saidjbody together and said means in cooperation with said straps and adjusting means converting the carrierinto a bag.

3. A combined portable carrying bag com; prising a substantially triangular-shaped flexible body, a strap attached to each corner ofthe larger end of said body, ,a strap attached to each corner of the apex of said body, guide loops secured to the larger end 'of said body at the corners tbereofl straps at the apex of the body extended through said guide loops to form a receptacle, means on the free ends of said straps whereby the carrier may be suspended to a person, adjustingmeans connected to the larger end of said body, and means for fastening the side edges of said body together, saidmeans in cooperation with said straps and adjusting means converting the carrier into abag.

In testimony whereof I ailix my signature.

NICK onrorr.

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Washington, D. c." 

